A celebration borne out of the struggle Black people face. While most Americans prepare to celebrate the country’s freedom on July 4, many Black people in the United States recognize June 19 as their ...
*Ashley Mudge is powered by art. She finds meaning in the upcoming June 17-19 Women Of Color Art Expo (WOCAX) at the downtown lakefront in Columbia, Maryland, and the message of empowerment it conveys ...
Juneteenth celebrations are taking place nationwide Sunday. Opal Lee, 95, has spent much of her life advocating for civil rights. When she was just 12, her family home was vandalized and set ablaze by ...
As our community prepares to commemorate Juneteenth, events surrounding education, art, advocacy, and economic awareness are planned. On Friday, join us for a virtual town hall entitled, "Racial ...
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Juneteenth was the day that the news that slavery had ended finally reached people in Texas. It's a conversation that until recently many families haven't had with their ...
This book not only symbolizes the power one person has to motivate, connect and elevate the needs of others, but can also ...
President Donald Trump marked the Juneteenth holiday on Thursday with a Truth social post complaining that the nation has “too many non-working holidays.” “It is costing our country BILLIONS OF ...
Joe Biden has reiterated his support for Juneteenth as a federal holiday, after President Donald Trump said America had "too many" of them. "Too many non-working holidays in America," Trump wrote on ...
President Donald Trump’s unapologetic, yet unsurprising, decision to disregard Juneteenth this year did not go unnoticed. Trump issued statements commemorating Juneteenth each year during his first ...
SALT LAKE CITY — To close out the month of Juneteenth celebrations, the Project Success Coalition hosted a healing and reconciliation vigil. Betty Sawyer, the executive director of the Project Success ...
For social justice activist Glenn Harris, President Donald Trump’s statement on Juneteenth, arguing there are “too many nonworking holidays in America” costing the country “billions of dollars,” was ...